“The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.” MenCenturyPhilosophicalLandscapeExplorationImmense Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“Personally, I've been hearing all my life about the Serious Philosophical Issues posed by life extension, and my attitude has always been that I'm willing to grapple with those issues for as many centuries as it takes.” AttitudeIssuesCenturyWillingSeriousPhilosophicalHearingExtensionsMy Attitude Author:Patrick Hayden
“Earlier in this century, the Heisenberg Principle established that the very act of observing a natural phenomenon can change what is being observed. Although the initial theory was limited in practice to special cases in subatomic physics, the philosophical implications were and are staggering.” NaturalPrinciplesPracticeCasesSpecialCenturyTheoryPhilosophicalPhysicsPhenomenonInitialsObservingImplicationsStaggeringNatural Phenomena Author:Al Gore
“I was occupied by a range of questions, often different from those fashionable in the professional philosophy of the past half century, that have sometimes troubled philosophers in the past. It's taken me several decades to work out my own philosophical agenda, and it is wide.” DifferentSometimesPhilosophyPastMy OwnHalfTakenCenturyPhilosophicalPhilosopherWork OutWideDecadesRangeAgendasFashionable Author:Philip Kitcher
“We call 'Slavery is wrong' a moral truth because there is a specific history of theoretical investigation of a particular kind of slavery. We discussed it for centuries in metaphysical, economic, biological, and philosophical terms; we listened to all the arguments pro and con, we read all the testimonies of slaves and witnesses, and we decided. Though this 'we" is not everybody on earth, or even most people, who've never thought about slavery much.” PeopleKindEarthTermMoralEconomicCenturyParticularTruth IsArgumentDecidedPhilosophicalSlaverySlaveWitnessInvestigationMetaphysicalTestimonyTheoreticalPros And Cons Author:Catherine Wilson
“There is the question of language. Although the play [Candid] is not written in strict verse form, there is an underlying beat of rhyming couplets, with echoes of Pope and the tradition of eighteenth-century philosophical verse.” PlayFormLanguageWrittenCenturyBeatsTraditionPhilosophicalVersesEchoesPopeStrictCandidRhymingCouplets Author:Mark Ravenhill
“Before the 3rd century you're having several philosophical schools still as a going concern. You have not only the Platonists and the Aristotelians but you have Scepticism, you have Stoicism, you even have a little bit of Epicureanism. And what happens after Plotinus is that everybody becomes a Neo-Platonist. So if we then go forward to the Islamic world for example, Plotinus is immensely influential, and Neo-Platonism becomes at least one major component of mainstream Islamic philosophy as well.” IfsWorldWellsLittlesStillsPhilosophyHappensSchoolBitsCenturyExampleMajorsLittle BitConcernPhilosophicalIslamicMainstreamStoicismComponentsInfluentialScepticismEpicureanism Author:Peter Adamson
“The philosophers talk across the centuries exclusively to one another, hermetically sealed from any influences derived from non-philosophical discourse.” InfluenceCenturyPhilosophicalPhilosopherDiscourse Book:Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away Source: Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
“We can either have a twenty-first-century conversation about morality and the human well-being - a conversation in which we avail ourselves of all scientific insights and philosophical arguments that have accumulated in the last two thousand years of human discourse - or we can confine ourselves to a first-century conversation as it is preserved in the Bible.” YearsFirstsHumansWellsTwoLastsCenturyMoralityThousandConversationArgumentTwentiesPhilosophicalInsightWell BeingThousand YearsDiscourse Author:Sam Harris
“Buddhism is a hundred times as realistic as Christianity it is part of its living heritage that it is able to face problems objectively and coolly; it is the product of long centuries of philosophical speculation.” LongProblemAbleFacesChristianityCenturyProductsBuddhismHundredPhilosophicalRealisticHeritageSpeculationAntichrist Book:The Antichrist Source: The Antichrist
“During all the first part of the Middle Ages, no other people made as important a contribution to human progress as did the Arabs, if we take this term to mean all those whose mother-tongue was Arabic, and not merely those living in the Arabian peninsula. For centuries, Arabic was the language of learning, culture and intellectual progress for the whole of the civilized world with the exception of the Far East. From the IXth to the XIIth century there were more philosophical, medical, historical, religiuos, astronomical and geographical works written in Arabic than in any other human tongue.” PeopleIfsWorldFirstsHumansMeanMadeImportantWholeAgeMotherCultureLanguageTermProgressWrittenMiddleCenturyIntellectualPhilosophicalHistoricalTongueEastMedicalContributionIslamicExceptionCivilizedMiddle AgesHuman ProgressArabianMother TonguePeninsulas Author:Philip Khuri Hitti
“By tracing the careers of the four members of the Philosophical Breakfast Club, Laura Snyder has found a wonderful way not just to tell the great stories of 19th-century science, but to bring them vividly to life.” WayStoriesFoundCareersFourWonderfulCenturyMembersPhilosophicalClubsBreakfast19th CenturyLauraTracing Author:Tom Standage
“But, in fact, materialism is among the most problematic of philosophical standpoints, the most impoverished in its explanatory range, and among the most willful and (for want of a better word) magical in its logic, even if it has been in fashion for a couple of centuries or more.” IfsWantHas BeensFactsCenturyFashionCoupleLogicPhilosophicalRangeMaterialismStandpoint Author:David Bentley Hart